Ideally, TV critics should judge new shows without regard to whether they run on cable or broadcast TV. In practice, our insider-y knowledge of the differences and the tensions between the two creeps in. Arguably, some cable shows get a pass for recurrent themes—the brooding antihero, &c.—that are every bit as much as overused as cop procedurals are on CBS. Conversely, sometimes network shows get graded on a curve, or, like Fox’s promising but imperfect Lone Star, get praised for their daring where they might have been more unsparingly critiqued on cable
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